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Random music news for Wednesday, May 5, 2021

If you have any anti-vaxxers in your life, read this, commit it to memory, and use it against their stupid

Yes, the iPhone gets most of the hype but Android rules the planet. This is easy to explain. While iOS

On this day in 1994, WXYC, a student radio station at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, became the

If you have an Android phone running the latest version, here’s a trick that should work on many phones. If

It’s still summer. Tomorrow, though… Here’s some music news for September 21. This weekend’s Global Citizen Festival in New York

You’re reading this because on this day in 1991, a new thing called The World Wide Web was opened to

Here’s the best part about potential North Korean missile attacks on the US: They’d have to fly over Canadian territory

It was on this day that The Pill was approved for use in the US. That didn’t change society much,

Unless my calculations are off, the last time Good Friday fell on April 14 was 1933. And now in music

There was another huge dump of documents–8,761, to be exact–by Wikileaks today under the name “Vault,” all purported to be

On this day in 1970, NASA announced that after a few more flights, there would be no more trips to

The Custodian of Toronto Sports – Richard Peddie in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 033 May 27, 2021
Over a 20+ year span, as the Toronto pro sports scene evolved from older venues and stands filled with blue and white (Leafs, Blue Jays, Argonauts) to a more intense red (Raptors, TFC), and grand coliseums that define the city’s skyline, there is one sports executive in particular who ownership looked to. We’re of course […]
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The Ultimate Backstage Pass – David Kines in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 032 May 17, 2021
In today’s everything-on-demand world, it may be hard for anyone born post-Y2 K to answer a simple question, “where do you watch music videos?” A reasonable answer would be YouTube, Apple Music, or maybe even Tiktok. Prior to the dawn of YouTube in 2005, the answer was easy. MTV if you’re American, and of course […]
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Gamifying the Movie Theatre Experience – Aaron Silverberg in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 031 May 9, 2021
People yearn for live experiences that they can share with others. Though fan and crowd-based events such as sports and concerts may be the source of most of our FOMO, movie theatres are even more appealing. Although the film may be the main attraction, movie theatre owners are constantly looking for new ways to maximize […]
Mark Silver